Foreign News: Human Torpedoes''

A naval torpedo is a little submarine, driven by compressed air and
steered by a gyroscopic brain. The brain can only keep the torpedo on
its course, cannot swerve it to strike a ship whose captain has seen
the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his
course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese
Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more
than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new
type of "human torpedo."